Road Trip Discussion Ep 2

SUMMER ROAD TRIP
EPISODE 2
ROAD RAGE (HOW TO LIVE FREE FROM FRUSTRATION)
Numbers 22:21-31 So the next morning Balaam got up, saddled his donkey, and started off
with the Moabite officials. But God was angry that Balaam was going, so he sent the angel of
the LORD to stand in the road to block his way. As Balaam and two servants were riding along,
Balaam’s donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his
hand. The donkey bolted off the road into a field, but Balaam beat it and turned it back onto
the road. Then the angel of the LORD stood at a place where the road narrowed between two
vineyard walls. When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, it tried to squeeze by and crushed
Balaam’s foot against the wall. So Balaam beat the donkey again. Then the angel of the LORD
moved farther down the road and stood in a place too narrow for the donkey to get by at all.
This time when the donkey saw the angel, it lay down under Balaam. In a fit of rage Balaam
beat the animal again with his staff. Then the LORD gave the donkey the ability to speak.
“What have I done to you that deserves your beating me three times?” it asked Balaam. “You
have made me look like a fool!” Balaam shouted. “If I had a sword with me, I would kill you!”
“But I am the same donkey you have ridden all your life,” the donkey answered. “Have I ever
done anything like this before?” “No,” Balaam admitted. Then the LORD opened Balaam’s
eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the roadway with a drawn sword in his
hand. Balaam bowed his head and fell face down on the ground before him.
THE CHILDREN OF GOD MUST KNOW…
1. GOD IS WORKING IN WAYS WE DON’T SEE OR COMPREHEND.
Isaiah 55:8-9 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far
beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my
ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
2. GOD IS NEVER FAILING ON HIS PROMISES.
Numbers 22:1-3 Then the people of Israel traveled to the plains of Moab and camped east of
the Jordan River, across from Jericho. Balak son of Zippor, the Moabite king, had seen
everything the Israelites did to the Amorites. And when the people of Moab saw how many
Israelites there were, they were terrified.
3. GOD IS TURNING CURSES INTO BLESSINGS.
Numbers 23:11-12 Then King Balak demanded of Balaam, “What have you done to me? I
brought you to curse my enemies. Instead, you have blessed them!” But Balaam replied, “I will
speak only the message that the LORD puts in my mouth.”
4. NOTHING IS TOO DIFFICULT FOR OUR GOD.
Jeremiah 32:17, 22 “O Sovereign LORD! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand
and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you!... “You brought Israel out of Egypt with mighty
signs and wonders, with a strong hand and powerful arm, and with overwhelming terror. You
gave the people of Israel this land that you had promised their ancestors long before-a land
flowing with milk and honey.